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Sue Stanhope

WELCOME

I am a Rhode Island licensed psychotherapist with offices in Wakefield and Westerly, RI

My mission is to teach people the skills to create more health and happiness in their lives

This site is primarily about Emotional Brain Training: what it is, how it works, and how it can benefit you
(Emotional Brain Training is the new name for the Solution Method™,
developed by Laurel Mellin, MA, RD at the University of California San Francisco.
It is administered by the Institute for Health Solutions: www.EBT.org)

For information about psychotherapy see Services and Fees

A Quick Overview of Emotional Brain Training and How It Can Benefit You
Emotional Brain Training is a unique program for changing the emotional brain – literally growing new neural pathways.
So many of our unwanted and unhealthy behaviors, habits, mood states, and relationship patterns originate in the neural networks of the emotional brain.
Consequently, changing these neural networks can result in a wide range of benefits.

Just imagine! – changing your emotional brain and being free of drives and urges to:

• overeat
• overspend
• overwork
• smoke
• drink too much
• numb out with excess TV or computer screen time

Just imagine! – freedom from stuck emotional states:

• depression
• anxiety
• chronic worry
• chronic anger and irritability
• shame
• low self-esteem

Just imagine! – freedom from unsatisfactory relationship patterns such as:

• people pleasing
• rescuing
• distancing
• putting up walls
• judging others
• isolating
• power struggles

Emotional Brain Training:
A scientific solution to stress
"One of the Top 10 Medical Advances of the Year" - Health Magazine